TikTok Whistleblower: Claims Under Scrutiny by DC

Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months

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Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable. But he still may have shaped how the app is viewed in Washington.

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The United States government is currently poised to outlaw TikTok. Little of the evidence that convinced Congress the app

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Zen Goziker worked at TikTok as a risk manager, a role that involved protecting the company from external security and reputational threats.

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In a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against TikTok's parent company ByteDance in January

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Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. He didn’t hold a senior position inside the company

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He claims that US attorney general Merrick Garland, director of national intelligence Avril Haines

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Yet court records and emails viewed by WIRED suggest that when Goziker raised the alarm about his ex-employer’s links to China

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he found a ready audience. After he was fired, Goziker says he began meeting with elected officials, law enforcement agencies

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Goziker's main point is that the executives in the American company TikTok Inc.

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